pieces. german (and
lot of other languages) is more like putty - you mold things together.
the lego-like structure of english makes it easier to create a computer
language...
But what the hell is English about the syntax of, for example,
if(isRed(the_fork
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 11:50:40PM +0200, David Jardine wrote:
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 02:21:45PM -0700, Tom wrote:
I would say isRed(fork) contains an implied [it] and [a]:
[it] | is | fork
-||--
|| \ \
\a \red
fork is a predicate
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 at 22:02 GMT, Ron Johnson penned:
I didn't learn that exact method, but did learn what I guess you'd
call sentence decomposition. It fundamental to being able to
comprehend complex sentences.
I don't know about that. Having a mental map of sentences may be
fundamental
On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 17:15, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 at 22:02 GMT, Ron Johnson penned:
I didn't learn that exact method, but did learn what I guess you'd
call sentence decomposition. It fundamental to being able to
comprehend complex sentences.
I don't know
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 03:32:08PM -0700, Tom wrote:
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 11:50:40PM +0200, David Jardine wrote:
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 02:21:45PM -0700, Tom wrote:
I would say isRed(fork) contains an implied [it] and [a]:
[it] | is | fork
-||--
|
On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 01:23:13AM +0200, David Jardine wrote:
Of course I know it's a fork. It's my paramater and I know what I'm
passing. I wouldn't have called it fork otherwise.
For the purpose of the discussion, I'll grant you the point.
But, clearly a (normal) fork is either red or
On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 19:46, Tom wrote:
On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 01:23:13AM +0200, David Jardine wrote:
Of course I know it's a fork. It's my paramater and I know what I'm
passing. I wouldn't have called it fork otherwise.
For the purpose of the discussion, I'll grant you the point.
a fairly simple a regular grammar so it's
fairly easy to create english based programming language -
the basic control structures are pretty much english
sentences.
This would be fairly hard todo in other languages that has
more irregular grammar (the ones I
a working language (that's pretty much what BASIC (talking
about programming language) is).
you can do that in both languages.
let's say you have a function called isRed(x) (returns true if x is
red). Now how would you call this function in german? it would never be
in agreement
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fairly
easy to create english based programming language - the basic
control structures are pretty much english sentences.
This would be fairly hard todo in other languages that has more
irregular grammar (the ones I know anything about have a lot
more complicated/irregular grammar).
Hrm
on Mon, 20 Oct 2003 11:53:34AM -0700, Erik Steffl insinuated:
Nori Heikkinen wrote:
the two are apples and oranges, my friend, especially when you're
dealing with something that no one can have an objective point of
view on, given different native languages.
??? you can measure how much
-
the basic control structures are pretty much english
sentences.
This would be fairly hard todo in other languages that has
more irregular grammar (the ones I know anything about
have a lot more complicated/irregular grammar).
Hrm. German and Latin are much more
Nori Heikkinen wrote:
on Mon, 20 Oct 2003 11:53:34AM -0700, Erik Steffl insinuated:
Nori Heikkinen wrote:
the two are apples and oranges, my friend, especially when you're
dealing with something that no one can have an objective point of
view on, given different native languages.
??? you can
On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 18:24, Vineet Kumar wrote:
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[snip]
ASCII. I'd predict just the opposite of your probably: I think it's
programming language) is).
you can do that in both languages.
let's say you have a function called isRed(x) (returns true if x is
red). Now how would you call this function in german? it would never be
in agreement with all possible x (grammatically). not sure if this is
the best example
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-speaking readers aware of High-level programming
languages using non-English syntax? Like, could I find a French C
compiler that uses pour instead of for and si instead of if?
[snip]
You're right; the anglo-centric nature of most programming languages is
distressing. It would be fun
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Red China Communism came from where? ;-)
Just to quickly jump in, then back out of this trivial, off-topic
polemic:
[a] There is not, nor has
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Red China Communism came from where? ;-)
Just to quickly jump in, then back out of
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Red China Communism came
* Tom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031021 15:32]:
Have we figured out who owns the Moon yet?
Narrator: The moon. For several years, she has fascinated many. But
will man ever walk on her fertile surface?
[cut to a shot of Adlai Stevenson at some sort of press
csj wrote:
On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 12:38:45 -0700,
Erik Steffl wrote:
[...]
think about it: when learning english the only challenge is
to learn how to pronounce words (and learn irregular
verbs). you built vocabulary by learning words, where you
pretty much only need to remember the word itself
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csj wrote:
On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 12:38:45 -0700,
Erik Steffl wrote:
[...]
think about it: when learning english the only challenge is
to learn how to pronounce words (and learn irregular
verbs). you built
by
neighbouring languages and dialects until there's not much left
of it apart from what's really necessary to communicate.
David
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).
good point -- languages by definition evolve, and the notion of a
pure language is utterly ridiculous and meaningless.
not sure what your agenda is. english is a a lot simpler than
german,
in what sense? to learn? to master? to write basic sentences in?
to write novels in? to read
, but this is probably because it is
impure in the sense of having been knocked around by neighbouring
languages and dialects until there's not much left of it apart from
what's really necessary to communicate.
you're kidding, right? if i read you right, you're stating that
there's not much
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).
good point -- languages by definition evolve, and the notion of a
pure language is utterly ridiculous and meaningless.
not sure what your agenda is. english is a a lot simpler than
german,
in what sense? to learn? to master? to write basic sentences in?
to write novels in? to read novels
Pigeon schrieb:
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 11:32:06PM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote:
My first
language was Serbo-Croatian (Commonly referred to as just Serbian since
the war during most of the 90's)
I was under the impression that Serbian was written with Roman
characters, and Croatian with
WHILE
SCREAM AT OLD LADY FOR MORE BEER
+ IF (OLD LADY SCREAMS AT YOU FOR CALLING FOR MORE BEER WHILE YOU HAVE A FULL
BOTTLE IN YOUR HAND) ...
END IF
END IF
No, there's not a perfect correlation, and it looks more like
COBOL than stack-oriented languages like C/Pascal
On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 09:05, David Jardine wrote:
On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 06:56:13PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
IF (I LIKE BEER) AND (THERE IS BEER IN THE FRIDGE) THEN
GO GET A BUD
END IF
IF (THE FOOTBALL GAME IS ON TV) THEN
TURN ON TV TO ESPN
IF (BEER IN HAND) THEN
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Pigeon writes:
I was under the impression that Serbian was written with Roman
characters, and Croatian with Cyrillic, but they were
On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 19:25, Tim Connors wrote:
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said on Sat, 18 Oct 2003 18:56:13 -0500:
On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 19:54, Chris Roddy wrote:
really, the syntax of most programming languages is not very much like
english -- english would have us putting the block
in other languages that has more
irregular grammar (the ones I know anything about have a lot more
complicated/irregular grammar).
Hrm. German and Latin are much more regular than English. French is,
too, iirc. English has a *lot* of irregularity.
german is regular? with each word changing
is a nightmare to behold; there is no
nightmare? try to learn (if you don't know already) e.g. slovak (or
any of the slavic languages).
consistent method of handling verb conjugations, and the structure of a
sentence is integral to its meaning; you can't just randomly move words
around in an English
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I was
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...
are pretty much english sentences.
This would be fairly hard todo in other languages that has more
irregular grammar (the ones I know anything about have a lot more
complicated/irregular grammar).
Hrm. German and Latin are much more regular than English. French is,
too, iirc
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on Sun, 19 Oct 2003 04:10:38AM -0700, Erik Steffl insinuated:
Monique Y. Herman wrote:
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 at 22:37 GMT, Erik Steffl penned:
Two things I love about German:
(1) Those
Arnt Karlsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003:10:19:15:19:21+0200] scribed:
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Red China Communism came from where? ;-)
Just to quickly jump in, then back out of this trivial, off-topic
polemic:
[a] There is not, nor has there ever been, a Communist government. The
Soviet Union, Peoples Republic
.
Again, regularity vs. simplicity.
example: in english, if I know the verb (one word) I can pretty
much use it in a sentence. how many forms of each verb in german do
you need to know to be able to use it in a sentence?
In both languages, if you don't know the conjugation, your
Daniel B quotes:
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enough
as Herrmensch to convince me Adolf would have laughted his ass off.
Ummm Herr is like Sir, and mensch is plural of man, I
think. Sir man is, pardon the pun, a foreign
structures are pretty much english sentences.
This would be fairly hard todo in other languages that has more
irregular grammar (the ones I know anything about have a lot more
complicated/irregular grammar).
Hrm. German and Latin are much more regular than English. French is,
too, iirc. English
On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 12:42, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 at 17:03 GMT, Ron Johnson penned:
On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 08:19, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
enough
as Herrmensch to convince me Adolf would have laughted his ass off.
Ummm Herr is like Sir, and mensch is plural of
Hi,
Monique Y. Herman wrote:
Okay, okay, I can think of an irregular German bit. As a small child, I
once said Du hast mich wehgetutet. (Instead of wehgetan.) I
conjugated the verb improperly, and don't think I've ever been allowed
to forget it, even after 20 years!
Du hast *mir*
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Hi,
Monique Y. Herman wrote:
Okay, okay, I can think of an irregular German bit. As a
on Mon, 20 Oct 2003 01:45:21AM +0200, Viktor Rosenfeld insinuated:
Hi,
Monique Y. Herman wrote:
Okay, okay, I can think of an irregular German bit. As a small child, I
once said Du hast mich wehgetutet. (Instead of wehgetan.) I
conjugated the verb improperly, and don't think I've
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On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 12:38:45 -0700,
Erik Steffl wrote:
[...]
think about it: when learning english the only challenge is
to learn how to pronounce words (and learn irregular
verbs). you built vocabulary by learning words, where you
pretty much only need to remember the word itself (in its
John,
John Hasler wrote:
Daniel B quotes:
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John Hasler
Daniel writes:
So? Nothing in my message attributed anything to you. (Check the
indentation level.)
Complex indentations are confusing. People assume, not unreasonably, that
the presence of someone's name implies the presence of something that
person wrote.
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At Fri, 17 Oct 2003 16:12:22 -0700,
Don Werve wrote:
[...]
The only reason that English-esque languages are prevalent is
that, in the early days, most of the programmers were native
English speakers, and as such, wrote tools and compilers that
best fit their native linguistic models
english
sentences.
This would be fairly hard todo in other languages that has
more irregular grammar (the ones I know anything about
have a lot more complicated/irregular grammar).
Hrm. German and Latin are much more regular than English.
French is, too, iirc. English has
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 11:32:06PM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote:
My first
language was Serbo-Croatian (Commonly referred to as just Serbian since
the war during most of the 90's)
I was under the impression that Serbian was written with Roman
characters, and Croatian with Cyrillic, but they
Pigeon writes:
I was under the impression that Serbian was written with Roman
characters, and Croatian with Cyrillic, but they were actually the same
language, hence Serbo-Croatian. How close to the truth is this?
A language is a dialect with its own army and navy.
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with particles.
The only reason that English-esque languages are prevalent is that, in
the early days, most of the programmers were native English speakers,
and as such, wrote tools and compilers that best fit their native
linguistic models. If computerdom had started in Germany, then I'd
wager
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said on Sat, 18 Oct 2003 18:56:13 -0500:
On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 19:54, Chris Roddy wrote:
really, the syntax of most programming languages is not very much like
english -- english would have us putting the block before the for() or
if() :-) ...
What
On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 17:12:15 -0500,
John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
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Pigeon writes:
I was under the impression that Serbian was written with Roman
characters, and Croatian with Cyrillic, but they were actually the
..the other way around.
same language,
[OT, sorry -- but question is obscure, will be hard to google]
Are any non-english-speaking readers aware of High-level programming
languages using non-English syntax? Like, could I find a French C
compiler that uses pour instead of for and si instead of if?
Actually, I'd be highly curious
espacially modifing existing languages to different
commands (that is not really a new syntax ...) won't be a good idea:
it would make the code unreadable since then it would mean nothing if it
is written in c when there are diffrent dialekts for german, french,
swiss french, etc... . Even though i do
On Friday 17 October 2003 13:15, Tom wrote:
Are any non-english-speaking readers aware of High-level programming
languages using non-English syntax?
I think parts of the scripting language Microsoft uses in its Office suite are
localized.
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On Friday 17 October 2003 13:15, Tom wrote:
Are any non-english-speaking readers aware of High-level programming
languages using non-English syntax?
Well, there is this really cool hack:
Lingua::Romana::Perligata
Hacking Perl in Latin!
Check out
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~damian/papers
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 05:28:47PM +0200, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote:
On Friday 17 October 2003 13:15, Tom wrote:
Are any non-english-speaking readers aware of High-level programming
languages using non-English syntax?
Well, there is this really cool hack:
Lingua::Romana::Perligata
Hacking
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 at 11:15 GMT, Tom penned:
[OT, sorry -- but question is obscure, will be hard to google]
Are any non-english-speaking readers aware of High-level programming
languages using non-English syntax? Like, could I find a French C
compiler that uses pour instead of for and si
On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 06:15, Tom wrote:
[OT, sorry -- but question is obscure, will be hard to google]
Are any non-english-speaking readers aware of High-level programming
languages using non-English syntax? Like, could I find a French C
compiler that uses pour instead of for and si
Am Fr, den 17.10.2003 schrieb Tom um 13:15:
[OT, sorry -- but question is obscure, will be hard to google]
Are any non-english-speaking readers aware of High-level programming
languages using non-English syntax? Like, could I find a French C
compiler that uses pour instead of for and si
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 04:15:48AM -0700, Tom wrote:
[OT, sorry -- but question is obscure, will be hard to google]
Are any non-english-speaking readers aware of High-level programming
languages using non-English syntax? Like, could I find a French C
compiler that uses pour instead
On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 12:29, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 at 11:15 GMT, Tom penned:
[OT, sorry -- but question is obscure, will be hard to google]
Are any non-english-speaking readers aware of High-level programming
languages using non-English syntax? Like, could I find
programming
languages using non-English syntax? Like, could I find a French C
compiler that uses pour instead of for and si instead of if?
[snip]
You're right; the anglo-centric nature of most programming languages is
distressing. It would be fun to code in a language based on a totally
Dennis Stosberg wrote:
But why should anyone want this?
--- german.h:
#define ganzzahl int
#define solange while
#define schreibef printf
--- test.c:
#include stdio.h
#include german.h
ganzzahl main() {
ganzzahl a = 0;
solange(a 5) {
schreibef(Dies ist Zeile %d\n, a);
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 at 19:01 GMT, Ron Johnson penned:
On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 12:29, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
You're right; the anglo-centric nature of most programming languages
is distressing. It would be fun to code in a language based on a
totally
Distressing What an over
Thus spake Pigeon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 04:15:48AM -0700, Tom wrote:
[OT, sorry -- but question is obscure, will be hard to google]
Are any non-english-speaking readers aware of High-level programming
languages using non-English syntax? Like, could I find
Monique Y. Herman wrote:
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 at 19:01 GMT, Ron Johnson penned:
On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 12:29, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
You're right; the anglo-centric nature of most programming languages
is distressing. It would be fun to code in a language based on a
totally
Distressing
languages using non-English syntax? Like, could I find a French C
compiler that uses pour instead of for and si instead of if?
You could stick #include francais.h in your C source, where
francais.h contains:
#define pour for
#define si if
#define casser break
or something like
On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 16:15, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 at 19:01 GMT, Ron Johnson penned:
On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 12:29, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
You're right; the anglo-centric nature of most programming languages
is distressing. It would be fun to code in a language based
) is
actually much more similar to Japanese, where you have an action and the
associate data stapled together in pairs, much like Japanese words are
(nominally) paired with particles.
The only reason that English-esque languages are prevalent is that, in
the early days, most of the programmers were
languages that has more
irregular grammar (the ones I know anything about have a lot more
complicated/irregular grammar).
Hrm. German and Latin are much more regular than English. French is,
too, iirc. English has a *lot* of irregularity.
--
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Unless you need to share ultra-sensitive
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 at 23:09 GMT, Ron Johnson penned:
Can't disagree with you there. Have you tried functional lan- guages
like Haskell? They are pretty odd to programmers with procedural and
OO paradigms.
I learned about lisp and prolog in college, and used them for projects
then. I
a
computer works at the low level (e.g., assembler and/or machine code) is
actually much more similar to Japanese, where you have an action and the
associate data stapled together in pairs, much like Japanese words are
(nominally) paired with particles.
The only reason that English-esque languages
at the low level (e.g., assembler and/or machine code) is
actually much more similar to Japanese, where you have an action and the
associate data stapled together in pairs, much like Japanese words are
(nominally) paired with particles.
The only reason that English-esque languages
Hello
i have to check texts in my 3 motherlanguages (de,fr,it)... at the
moment i reinstall the package ispell each time i have a bunch in
another language to check.. this isn't very practical
how come that the dictionaries can't coexist??? what is the purpose to
have a script to change the
. Or does it really uninstall other languages when you
install a new one? This would mean there is a bug in the packaging in
unstable.
Regards,
Torsten
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Ladislav apt-get install ttf-baekmuk should solve your problem.
OK, now looking at Japanese, I occasionally notice boxes with 9A28,
6CA2, etc. I must be missing a few chars. What would the
mozilla user of today be sure to have apt-gotten in order to be
prepared for almost any language?
Do I
On Friday 08 August 2003 09:15, Dan Jacobson wrote:
Everything is hunky dory, except the Korean (Hangul), I see squares
with hex in them for the #54620;#44397;#50612;
Did I forget to apt-get something, or is Mozilla Debian Package
1.3.1-3 deficient? (I would upgrade and check again, but I'm
read those languages even when displayed correctly. Ignore this if
you can read those languages.
Did I forget to apt-get something, or is Mozilla Debian Package
1.3.1-3 deficient? (I would upgrade and check again, but I'm on a modem.)
It's going to be one of the ttf-fonts or xfonts packages
Looking at the bottom of http://www.debian.org/Bugs/ I see the names
of various languages in their native fashion.
Everything is hunky dory, except the Korean (Hangul), I see squares
with hex in them for the #54620;#44397;#50612;
Did I forget to apt-get something, or is Mozilla Debian Package
On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 23:50:19 +0200, Kirk Strauser wrote:
Have you noticed any performance improvement?
I've recently been profiling a PS/PCL printer from windows (so shoot
me :) and there's about a 40% reduction in transmitted print job size
using PostScript rather than PCL.
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Stephen
Stephen Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've recently been profiling a PS/PCL printer from windows (so shoot
me :) and there's about a 40% reduction in transmitted print job size
using PostScript rather than PCL.
What about print time?
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Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am the rocks.
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 19:10:13 +0200, Alan Shutko wrote:
Stephen Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've recently been profiling a PS/PCL printer from windows (so shoot
me :) and there's about a 40% reduction in transmitted print job size
using PostScript rather than PCL.
What about print
On 2003-06-13 01:10:57, Stephen Patterson wrote:
Turns out the test PC was running across a ciscow router at a healthy
6 KBytes/sec (and this is on a 10/100 network).
Seen this with sun boxes auto-negotiating a different speed than the
(cisco) switch, in which the standard treatment is to
At 2003-06-11T04:07:01Z, Andrew Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
45 TrueType, 35 PostScript®, 4 international
No - a postscript document will send its own as needed.
Out of curiosity, why can't I print non-western pages from Mozilla to my
1200SE in Postscript mode? Since I've never had
On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 09:29:28 -0500
Kirk Strauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 2003-06-11T04:07:01Z, Andrew Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
45 TrueType, 35 PostScript®, 4 international
No - a postscript document will send its own as needed.
Out of curiosity, why can't I print
On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Kirk Strauser wrote:
is it worthwhile to upgrade the RAM for light printing duties?
No.
I disagree. I was able to buy a 3rd-party 64MB module for about $25. At
that price, why not?
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Have you noticed any performance improvement?
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